# TVAA-you don't know jackshit about mental illness

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvaa-you-dont-know-jackshit-about-mental-illness/208116>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [October 17, 2003, 11:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvaa-you-dont-know-jackshit-about-mental-illness/208116 "2003-10-17T23:45:04Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![TVAA](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TVAA](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVAA)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvaa-you-dont-know-jackshit-about-mental-illness/208116/261 "2003-11-01T20:37:26Z")

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Oh, and if you don’t know what SSRI stands for, you really don’t have any business in either of these threads.

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**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2003, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tvaa-you-dont-know-jackshit-about-mental-illness/208116/262 "2003-11-02T01:46:12Z")

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The problem is, **TVAA** , that it was the Natitional Institute of Mental Health quotation that contained the explanation for what SSRI stands for – not mine.

I am pleased to see that you are aware of why the practice of medicine often requires the use of _trial and error_ and that you were just baiting.

There is no debate here. Debating arguments are not allowed in The Pit. Six pages of posts, especially your own, have generally supported the thread topic – not debated it.

That, along with the excellent reminder from Shoshana, will end the pit thread for me.

TVAA, for you I wish release from whatever lack of self-esteem that you may have.

I hope that you have pleasant days of peaceful and fulfilling relationships with no need for masks other than a nickname on a forum.

When you are angry, may you be able to address the very thing that makes you angry – and then set it aside and feel no more anger.

May you discover that the greatest learning isn’t in textbooks at all, but may you balance those great insights with a continuing formal education.

I hope that you can put your past into perspective and remain open to the incredible potential of this moment and all of the strings of days that spread before you. Choose your design, weave carefully, improvise.

But as you go, untie the complex knot that is yourself.

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